Back to the original Noonan hasty backtrack: she states that the American people no longer are in line with the Republican “base.” Any time someone says something like this, you know they’re going to end up reluctantly giving the farm away, or trying to. And usually there’s no need for it.

Are a lot of voters pissed off at the GOP? Yes. Are they angry at the oil companies to whom they pay high gas prices? Yes. Do they want some sort of action to control medical bills? Yes, even though they’re wron

The problem is, though, that Noonan hangs around a bunch of ultraleftists, so she doesn’t get the nuances of American opinion. Probably she thinks that gun control, to name one example, is a bad idea, but she may think that if a Republican supports it, the American people will be willing to forgive his unwillingness to support interfering in the health system.

Fat chance. The real reaction will be, “The Republicans? They’re the ones who want to take my guns AND won’t fight Big Pharma!”

Her connection to reality has fallen and it can’t get up.